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New Academic Street (NAS) wins the Victorian Architectural Medal

Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Harrison & White, MvS Architects and Maddison Architects took out the highest honour at the Victorian Architects Awards in Melbourne on Friday night.

The award acknowledged the outstanding design of RMIT’s New Academic Street, a project led by Lyons in collaboration with MvS Architects, NMBW Architects, Harrison & White and Maddison Architects.

In addition to the Victorian Architecture Medal, NAS was named a dual recipient of the Melbourne Prize and received the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture and two architecture awards for Interior Architecture and Sustainable Architecture.

Lyons would like to congratulate and thank our clients and all those involved in contributing to and delivering this exemplar project.

Lyons wins UoM’s new $229m student precinct project

We are honoured to announce that Lyons has overcome significant competition from almost 40 architects and designers to be appointed Project Lead for the new Student Precinct project at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus.

Lyons will lead a team of specialists and designers including Koning Eizenberg Architects from the USA (led by UoM alumni Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning), with Aspect Studios, Breathe Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, Glas Urban and Architects EAT.

Encompassing nine buildings, the precinct will bring together the University’s student unions, academic services, and the Institute for Indigenous Development, Murrup Barak for the first time; significantly reshaping and revitalising the landscape and built environment of the site.

Can a building revitalise a city?

The recently completed University of Newcastle campus, designed by Lyons in collaboration with EJE Architecture, brings a new perspective into the heart of a rapidly transforming town.

The original campus for the University of Newcastle, is out of town and surrounded by trees. But Newcastle is a place of rapid growth and as it continues to develop its identity as a creative precinct, the university wanted to expand its campus, this time in the heart of the city.

InDesign Live editor, Aleesha Callahan talks to James Wilson, director at Lyons, to get insight into this project and how it set out to revitalise Newcastle.